Today, I want to focus on a very simple yet profoundstatement that I hope you will memorize and repeat as needed.

What I allow God to transform in me, I will be able totransfer to my children.

Let’s repeat that … What I allow God to transform in me,I will be able to transfer to my children Listen to Paul in Romans 12:1-2 …Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform youinto a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to knowGod’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Notice how God transforms us into a new person … bychanging the way we think. And the way God thinks is opposite of the world.

Listen to this passage again in The Message Bible … Sohere’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinarylife—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place itbefore God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thingyou can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fitinto it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll bechanged from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, andquickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you downto its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, developswell-formed maturity in you.

If changing your thinking can transform you, what needsto change about your thinking?

How does God want to transform you by changing the wayyou think?

And how will that transformation positively transformyour children?

Let’s pray together: “Heavenly Father, change my mind.Change my heart. Help me to be shaped by You and not the world. And please helpme to stay motivated to grow in You for the sake of my kids. As above, sobelow.”